By Kara Scannell and Lauren del Valle, CNN The former head of counterintelligence for the FBI’s New York field office was charged in two separate indictments Monday for allegedly working with a sanctioned Russian oligarch after he retired and concealing hundreds of thousands of dollars he received from a former employee of an Albanian intelligence
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Dale, CNN Since winning a difficult battle to become speaker of the House of Representatives, Republican Kevin McCarthy has made public claims that are misleading, lacking any evidence or plain wrong. Here is a fact check of recent McCarthy comments about the debt ceiling, funding for the Internal Revenue Service, the FBI search
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By SCOTT McFETRIDGE and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An 18-year-old who police say was involved in an ongoing gang dispute walked into the common area of an alternative education program for at-risk students and fatally shot two teenagers in a premeditated attack — chasing one of them down and shooting
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By SCOTT McFETRIDGE and JOSH FUNK Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The killing of two students at an alternative education program designed to help at-risk teenagers in Des Moines was a targeted attack that stemmed from an ongoing gang dispute, police said, and an 18-year-old has been charged. The teenagers killed in Monday’s
Continue Reading By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark’s government wants to scrap a springtime public holiday. The money saved by doing that will be used to boost defense funding. On Tuesday, a bill proposing the abolition of the holiday was presented to parliament. But the entire opposition, major trade unions, all of
Continue Reading MADRID (AP) — Spain’s labor ministry has issued app-based food delivery company Glovo a new fine of 57 million euros ($62 million) for violating labor laws. The ministry said Tuesday that Glovo was being punished for not contracting its riders as employees and for giving gigs to irregular immigrants without work permits. Glovo was smacked
Continue Reading TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian state media reports that a Tanzanian cargo ship has sunk in a jetty in the southern Iranian port of Assaluyeh. The official IRNA news agency said the vessel named Anil overturned Tuesday because containers on it were configured incorrectly at the port’s dock No. 9. The port has more than
Continue ReadingBy Nicole Goodkind, CNN Big Tech earnings are here, and investors are hoping they don’t wreck the good vibes on Wall Street. Markets are coming off of one of their worst years in history, but have been positive in the first few weeks of 2023. Three giant tech earnings reports this week — Microsoft, Tesla
Continue Reading By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — More landlords are taking Twitter to court over unpaid rent, this time at the social media company’s headquarters in San Francisco and its British offices — the latest sign that owner Elon Musk’s extreme cost-cutting strategy includes simply not paying the bills. Twitter is facing a
Continue ReadingBy George Ramsay, CNN A local lifeguard in Hawaii was the surprise winner of the prestigious Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational — dubbed the “Super Bowl of surfing” — after beating off competition from some of the sport’s biggest names. Luke Shepardson took approved breaks from his lifeguarding duty at Waimea Bay to compete in
Continue ReadingBy MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW (AP) — Fernando Santos is the new coach of Poland’s national team. His appointment has been announced by the head of Poland’s soccer association. Santos is the former coach of his native Portugal. The 68-year-old Santos will be coaching a team captained by Barcelona striker Robert Lewandowski. Santos is
Continue ReadingBy Lilit Marcus, CNN The phrase “queen of the skies” has just taken on another meaning. While the now-discontinued Boeing 747 bore the moniker in the past, Virgin Atlantic is repurposing the phrase as it names a plane after the late Queen Elizabeth II. The airline has occasionally named its planes after notable women in
Continue Reading By ALEKSANDAR FURTULA Associated Press OMMEREN, Netherlands (AP) — A hand-drawn map with a red letter X purportedly showing the location of a buried stash of precious jewelry looted by Nazis from a blown-up bank vault has sparked a modern-day treasure hunt in a tiny Dutch village more than three quarters of a century later.
Continue ReadingJuan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Los combatientes del Grupo Wagner se han convertido en la infantería desechable de la ofensiva rusa en el este de Ucrania, pero un documento de la inteligencia militar ucraniana obtenido por CNN expone lo eficaces que han sido en torno a la ciudad de Bajmut, y lo difícil que es
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN We’re already more than halfway through winter — which runs from December through February — and understandably, people in the western US are ready for it to end after being inundated with rain and chilly weather for weeks. Meanwhile, some people on the other side of the country feel like the
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Meeks, CNN We’re already more than halfway through winter — which runs from December through February — and understandably, people in the western US are ready for it to end after being inundated with rain and chilly weather for weeks. Meanwhile, some people on the other side of the country feel like the
Continue Reading By ANDREW MELDRUM Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Poland has officially requested permission from Germany to transfer its Leopard 2 battle tanks to Ukraine where they can help fight Russia’s invasion, Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Błaszczak said Tuesday. German officials confirmed to the dpa news agency they had received the application and said it
Continue ReadingBy Don Riddell and George Ramsay, CNN Uprooted from its home in Ukraine’s Donbas region in 2014, soccer club Shakhtar Donetsk is accustomed to the change and upheaval brought about by war having played at stadiums around the country for close to a decade. But even by Shakhtar’s standards, the events that have unfolded since
Continue Reading By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s president has marked the opening of a $1.5 billion, Chinese-funded deep seaport in the commercial hub of Lagos that authorities hope will help grow the West African nation’s ailing economy. Lagos Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu said Monday that the Lekki Deep Sea Port will be one
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, CNN It turns out burps can be big business. Billionaire Bill Gates has announced an investment in Australian start-up Rumin8, which is developing a seaweed-based feed to reduce the methane emissions cows produce through their burps and, to a lesser extent, farts. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas. While it is shorter-lived
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